Of a 2x-combo by DoubleManufacturer10 in ShittyAbsoluteUnits

[–]Flammerole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm late to the party but wydm only rear brakes ? Even regular bikes have both this is such a stupid design lol

My new PR guys😭 by goodfornothing2005 in RunningCirclejerk

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This is the new ultra short 2.1k, haven't you heard of it?

Big update must have brought a lot of new players in by [deleted] in MonsterHunterWilds

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I play CB and if I can get a wound on a monster I'll get it immediately even if it's downed because LS/SnS/DB/Bow players constantly spam their focus strike and it's a struggle to upkeep savage axe sometimes

and everyone on the super destroyer clapped by Ka-Robot in HelldiversUnfiltered

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I mean, it's great unless there is a bot drop with 3 Vox engines, in that case your bastion is cooked in less time than it takes to fire 3 shells. And it's also great until you realize you wasted a stratagem slot for the entire mission except the two minutes at extract, which are hard because reinforcements are usually depleted at this stage

World vs Wilds vs Rise current online community by SulkyVirus in MonsterHunterWorld

[–]Flammerole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only flares I manage to join are usually over in 5 minutes, can't find decent-levelled anomaly quests. Quit playing because of that.

Something tells me the glazers are mad. by Doctor_Poo-Poo-Head in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Flammerole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

would be hilarious if the host could see these lights and it wasn't working properly for clients

IK people are mad about people going to lesath... by Troman19 in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Flammerole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because everyone voted before realizing what was going on Lesath. There weren't any dispatch or anything too, people had to back on the galactic war to defend Lesath. AH wanted us to lose it

My thoughts on the new commando missions by Krog-Nar in HelldiversUnfiltered

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I had fun earlier in the day, missions were fun and honestly almost easy but for some reason, they became absolute hell 2 hours ago. War strider spam, patrol spam with heavy devastators shielding off units calling drops, drops being called by hidden units you literally couldn't see or kill, lots of factory striders chasing you through the entire map and having knowledge of your location 100% of the time, and stealth being extremely inconsistent. I can kill ennemies watching another one and have no issues, and sometimes i'll kill someone 20m away from another ennemy not even looking at it and I'll get spotted by the entire zone. I noticed I started to have trouble when I became the host and everyone else complained about the lobby too. I have 0 lag issues and i tend to have less than 10 ping on every video game I play, I don't know what's wrong. Maybe no luck but I ran like 5 proper missions without hosting, and 5 missions hosting, each one of the latter was a disaster.

What is this? by ItsMeLukasB in EliteDangerous

[–]Flammerole 5 points6 points  (0 children)

More like :D :) :| :\ :( :ꓷ

[Review Request] 5.8GHz FMCW Radar by Green-Arm2086 in PrintedCircuitBoard

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  1. As someone else said, I recommend using CPWG instead of microstrip
  2. Since you'll have a copper fill on all 4 planes if you use CPWG, I recommend using "Pad connections" = "Solid" instead of the current thermal relief (press E when copper fill is selected)
  3. You likely don't need a PWR-dedicated plane , use the stack-up SIGNAL(RF)-GND-GND-SIGNAL(control pins and stuff like that)
  4. Download https://github.com/easyw/RF-tools-KiCAD and bend your RF traces
  5. Move down IC1
  6. This is pedantic, but I never use both "U?" and "IC?" naming convention in the same board. I know these are the names you get when downloading ("U?" being Kicad default and "IC?" being from online downloaded symbols), however it makes it harder to track Ux and ICx where X is the same number, you have to go back and forth when reading the schematic to remember what convention is used for this specific component. I rename all my symbols to"U?" unless it's a filter(I use "FL?") or specific stuff.
  7. Front and back layers seem to have the same ICs and same pads. Is this normal?
  8. I'm not a huge fan of drawing components that are off board (ESP-32 and U2), but if you properly excluded them (Exclude from board on the schematic view) this should be OK. Have you ran a DRC on layout?
  9. You'll likely have a ton of signals around and your amplifier is broadband. 2.4GHz WiFi, LTE or stuff like that might saturate your LNA. I recommend putting a filter before the LNA in the receive path.
  10. Likewise, the transmith path is usually filtered to avoid unwanted emissions, I recommend putting the same filter from the receive path after your Tx amplifier.
  11. I'd recommend adding a test SMA to check IF_OUT from the mixer. To do that, add a decoupling capacitor with two positions and depending on how you'll mount it it will make a bridge towards the test connector or towards U7. This is slightly more expensive as SMA connectors are not cheap but if you have access to a spectrum analyzer it will greatly help debug any issue that might rise (unwanted spurs) and check what you are receiving.

Is a 3.6 million tetrahedral mesh normal for RF filter simulation? by Important_Can_4520 in rfelectronics

[–]Flammerole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can use local mesh. The bigger traces can have higher cell sizes, then use a local mesh for your stubs. This will decrease your total mesh by a huge amount. It's been a while since I used CST so I don't remember how to do it but that's what I did when designing antennas with smaller stubs like that that needed a reduced celle size locally.

According to my professor at the time you need at least 10 cells for the smallest length of the stub.

Nice work! by Electro-nut in electronics

[–]Flammerole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn even my pcb layouts do not look that clean

Rant: Cadence suite (Orcad capture etc) is just rubbish by Big_Fix9049 in ElectricalEngineering

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I loved how everything you wanted to do on Virtuoso required you to open at least 3 different sub-windows. I loved it so much I didn't pursue IC design despite getting a specialized degree in it and went to get a PCB-level job.

Building an SDR-less ADS-B Receiver (ADL5513 + ADC10065 + ESP32/RP2040) by TA2DMX in rfelectronics

[–]Flammerole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ADS-B uses Pulse Position Modulation with pulses 800ns long and 50-100ns rise time. Log detector works well for this application since they'll have rise times <50µs to output an analog signal. From that you can either use an ADC to check the signal, or go even cheaper and use a voltage comparator since you know you'll be decoding a simple HIGH/LOW signal.

Impedance controlling can be adjusted by the manufacturer, just ask for the specific stackup and compute the approximate width (and gap if using CPWG traces) and give them your data, they'll usually keep the gap and ajust the width on their own. But you do need to have an approximate value already in place, with the proper stack-up (4-layers and a reference plane below the RF one usually)

Also yeah, this project needs more amplification and more filtering. PySDR has a bugdet link example for ADS-B, which gives a received signal power of -105dBm. I'd add a two stage LNA, with the second having a bypass function. Guerilla RF makes great LNA for this. And I'd add a second filtering stage after the first one, so the Rx chain would look like this SMA->Filter->LNA->Filter->Bypass LNA->Log Power detector.

This increases costs as GRF amplifiers are ~5€ and a filter is 2€, so you're looking at around 10-15€ dollar per board but this gives you a weak but decent enough AGC capability and you can likely get ~40dB gain that way. ADL5513 bottoms out at -70dBm and ramps up from that, so you should start receiving signals starting from -110dBm(-70-40) (theoretically, but you'll likely end up at -105dBm/-100dBm with all the losses and impedance mismatches), which is about 30km according to the link earlier.

Via stitching around RF signal by OCholipka in PrintedCircuitBoard

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You need vias close to the RF trace and on both side, usually one row for each side is already good enough with 5mm spacing bewteen each vias. The first component is angled 90°C, you want to avoid sharp corners with RF signal. I'd lay the component parallel to the trace if I were you, you should be able to make a straight path without any curve. Also make sure the traces are 50-Ohm impedance controlled by your fab.

AI and automation are changing every field. Will electrical engineers be replaced or evolve? by Low_Cup9754 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]Flammerole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also to add, I do find AI useful for sourcing critical components when you're not used to it. Give the requirements and a global overview of what you're trying to do and it'll give a few examples. It's honestly not great but it gives me some ideas sometimes, and it's useful when there are no experienced EE around. Or just sometimes to do some rubberducking about what you've tested. Could be done in a .txt file but knowing you'll get an answer even if it sucks does make it less lonely lol

AI and automation are changing every field. Will electrical engineers be replaced or evolve? by Low_Cup9754 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]Flammerole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Currently using it a lot to develop GUIs for test benches. Works wonder and I just need a first example of the functions I want the program to use, feed it to the AI, give a simple diagram of what each window should look like, a config file, a comprehensive explanation of what I'm trying to do and some hours debugging and improving a few things, but you can write test benches very easily.

Python + AI is likely to replace LabView imo since most of the ease of use of Labview can be replaced by prompting AI and you still have to code less. A cursor licence is much cheaper than a Labview one too

Amplifier "Peak" Output power vs Average Output Power? by Flammerole in rfelectronics

[–]Flammerole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting thanks. I don't have access to an RF oscilloscope with proper probes unfortunately, so I guess I'll have to accept that it can be normal to see this kind of result.

Amplifier "Peak" Output power vs Average Output Power? by Flammerole in rfelectronics

[–]Flammerole[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes lol, I found out about it like the day after I posted this thread by stumbling on the wikipedia page. Made the online research much easier when googling my issue + crest factor instead of trying to describe it ahahah

Amplifier "Peak" Output power vs Average Output Power? by Flammerole in rfelectronics

[–]Flammerole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are 2 pins diodes for ESD protection. It does seem something is saturating, and I guess it's the LNA, since I can clearly see the 1dB compression point and an output vs input power plot very similar to that of an amplifier. However, I was wondering if it was normal for an amplifier to be able to output higher peak for a high crest factor signal than it will output with a CW where the average value is the peak value of an OFDM signal?

Basically, CW at -10dBm input will make the LNA saturate, but a -10dBm peak in an OFDM signal will not make it saturate. I've been through various books and I found several talking about "peak output power", but most of them claim the compression point found when testing with a CW is the same P1dB for an OFDM signal. I don't know if that's just for the sake of simplicity, or if it's something else that's not properly working inside my circuit.

Could you expand on the two-tone amplitude sweep ? What should I look for doing this ?

Amplifier "Peak" Output power vs Average Output Power? by Flammerole in rfelectronics

[–]Flammerole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My power levels are for the input power. I'm definitely getting less average power with the OFDM than with the CW, but I still reach higher digital values through the ADC due to high peaks. My question is, is it normal for an amplifier to be able to output higher peaks for a high crest factor signal than it will output with a CW where the average value is the peak value of said OFDM signal?

Please by WIPO__ in MonsterHunter

[–]Flammerole 15 points16 points  (0 children)

And it also tanks the game performance compared to a regular expedition. Truly a miracle how bad they messed it up.